Director
François Truffaut
94 years · Paris, France · 88 films
François Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five films. Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Truffaut was one of the most influential figures of the French New Wave, inspiring directors such as Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson.
Best known for
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Claude Lacombe
On Tubi TV
The 400 Blows
1959 · Homme dans une fête foraine (non crédité), Director
On Plex
Fahrenheit 451
1966 · Screenplay, Director
Jules and Jim
1962 · Producer, Director
On Kanopy
Day for Night
1973 · Ferrand, the Director, Director
The Last Metro
1980 · Director, Screenplay
On HBO Max
Filmography 88
Determination
2026 · Self (archival footage)
Being Bo Widerberg
2025 · Self (archive footage)
Postface à l’Atalante
2025 · Self
François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Catherine Deneuve, in the eye of the camera
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Passion Fanny Ardant
2023 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Godard Cinema
2023 · Self (archive footage)
On Kanopy
Godard by Godard
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Deneuve, la reine Catherine
2022 · Self (archive footage)
Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
2021 · archive footage
Sous le soleil de Pialat
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Jim Morrison: The End
2021 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Morceaux de Cannes
2021 · Actor
Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte
2021 · Self (archive footage)
François Truffaut: Des films d'amour !
2020 · Self
Les secrets de François Truffaut
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Introducing My Father, François Truffaut
2019 · Self (Archive Footage)
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
2019 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
When Hitchcock met O'Casey
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
2018 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
2017 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Vadim Mister Cool
2016 · Self (archive footage)
On France Channel Amazon Channel
Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
2016 · Actor
On OVID